I need to find a reasonably good-quality audio file of Ronald Reagan's
speech announcing his SDI ("star wars") missile defence initiative. It
needn't be the full speech, but the clip should be clearly about the
lasers or missle threats, etc.

Hello jhabley, 

I couldn't find a straight audio recording of the speech, but there is
a video of it at The PBS American Experience website. It's only the
last two minutes, but I think it covers everything you're looking for.
 It's available for viewing here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/sfeature/sdi56k.ram

The full text of the speech is available from Townhall.com here:
http://www.townhall.com/hall_of_fame/reagan/speech/sdi.html

You might also be interested in this article called Strategic Defense
Initiative - A Case Study In Systems Failure if you're looking in to
the SDI.  It can be found here:
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~brendy/SDI.html

Policy Review Online also has a discussion of the SDI here:
http://www.policyreview.org/oct00/Davis.html

I hope this meets your needs.

All the best, 

Hibiscus

Search Strategy: +reagan +"star wars" +audio clip, reagan sdi

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Request for Answer Clarification by jhabley-ga on 27 Jan 2003 14:16 PST

This is fantastic, thanks. I'm closing it and rating it five stars. If
you have a second, I also have an open question at 147671 that you may
be able to help with too.

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Clarification of Answer by hibiscus-ga on 27 Jan 2003 14:29 PST

Hmm.. I tried, but no luck.  Sorry.  However, if you're looking for
clips of similar sorts of films you should look no further than the
Internet Archive's video archive.  The categories that are probably of
most interest to you are Atomic-Nuclear - Weapons and Atomic-Nuclear -
Civil Defense.  The first category is found here:
http://www.archive.org/movies/movieslisting-browse.php?collection=prelinger&cat=Atomic-nuclear:%20Weapons
And the second one is here:
http://www.archive.org/movies/movieslisting-browse.php?collection=prelinger&cat=Atomic-nuclear:%20Civil%20defense

All the movies are available for streaming media viewing, and most are
available for full download in various formats.

Hibiscus